Love. It’s that simple. We are commanded to
love each other:
Romans 12:10
10 Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another
in showing honor.
and John 13:34-35
34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another:
just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. 35 By this all people will know
that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.
and
finally, Matthew 36-40
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your
soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first
commandment. 39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40 On these two commandments depend all
the Law and the Prophets.
If you do not
love the people that surround you in your life, then you are not a disciple of
Christ.
Christianity is
not about going to church, or how many minutes a day you read the Bible, or how
righteous you think you are (think again). Christianity is about the act of
showing love for the people God has placed in your life.
God created each
of us. God doesn’t make mistakes. None of us are mistakes. We are all his
children who he loves dearly. He has us exactly where he wants us right now, in
this very moment. So set your bias, your judgment, your fears and insecurities
aside and remember:
1 John 4:7-12
7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and
whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Anyone who does not love
does not know God, because God is love. 9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God
sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, not that we
have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for
our sins. 11 Beloved,
if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; if
we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.
Jesus
loves us enough to bear our sins. Now, we are free to love each other through
him.
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